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May-June 2018. Eunice Kennedy Shriver races her brother Ted and others in Washington, D.C., to kick off a 1975 Special Olympics fundraising coast-to-coast marathon. Photograph by Bettmann/Getty Images. Eunice Kennedy arrived at Radcliffe in November 1943 with a lingering British accent and a fading California suntan, remnants of her convent ...
In the News. How Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded the Special Olympics. FanSided has released a tribute to Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriverduring the yearlong celebration of what would have been her 100thbirthday on 10 July. The tribute provides an in depth look at how Special Olympics came to be in 1968.
Learning Through Interaction. One of the most important aspects of Camp Shriver was Eunice's insistence there be an interaction between children with special needs and typical children. One of the latter was Tim, her son, just three years old when the camp began. Tim was paired with a young boy with intellectual disabilities named Wendell.
Jul 12, 2021 · On July 10, 2021, John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site honored Eunice Kennedy Shriver on the 100 th anniversary of her birth with a filmed presentation that celebrated her life and legacy. The program included Shriver family members, biographers, disabilities rights advocates, and an award-winning Special Olympics athlete, among others.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver reveals that her sister -- also U.S. President Kennedy’s sister -- has an intellectual disability, the first such public acknowledgement by the Kennedy family. The article in the popular “Saturday Evening Post” -- titled “Hope for the Retarded” -- becomes known as a "watershed in changing attitudes towards ...
Jul 9, 2015 · The mission of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) is to lead research and training to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. The institute's vision is: Healthy pregnancies.
The Beginning of a Worldwide Movement. It all began in the 1950s and early 1960s, when Eunice Kennedy Shriver saw how unjustly and unfairly people with intellectual disabilities were treated. She also saw that many children with intellectual disabilities didn’t even have a place to play. She decided to take action.
